AR-News: WWF - Scaremongers in Conservation
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Subject: WWF - Scaremongers in Conservation
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WWF-SA - SCAREMONGERS IN CONSERVATION
By
The Kalahari Raptor Centre.
Tuesday, April 06, 2004
On 20-Nov-03, the WWF (World Wide fund for Nature) alias
World Wildlife Fund in South Africa published the following article.
Unfortunately, it is written in Ecobabble, a language designed by
the High Priests of Conservation to confuse affirmative action
appointments, and so we have provided a translation below.
"WWF-SA Position on Animal Rights"
Dr. Rob Little of WWF-SA
ANIMAL RIGHTS AS A THREAT TO CONSERVATION
1. As the population of the wealthy "developed" nations move ever further
from their daily interactions with Nature, they move into a realm where
simplistic "animal rights" approaches/solutions to mankind's interaction
with wildlife become ever more appealing to "the man in the street".
2. WWF-SA believes that the conservation community completely
underestimates how devastating this trend could be, if allowed to
proceed unchecked.
3. This attitude can lead to mismanaged or unmanaged
systems; for example (A) the lack of control of introduced invasive
alien species which can threaten the future viability and biodiversity
of the invaded ecosystems, (B) the lack of control of overabundant large
native herbivores in protected areas where their uncontrolled population
growth similarly reduces the viability and biodiversity of the protected
ecosystems, and (C) the issue of opposition to the sustainable
consumptive use of native wildlife populations - where allowing this use
might be of fundamental importance in ensuring that native species and
untransformed ecosystems survive in areas where human needs will
otherwise drive these areas into alternative land usage under which
ecosystems are transformed (e.g. cultivated) and/or native wildlife is
replaced with domesticated livestock.
4. By failing to recognize, and then face head-on, the enormous strategic
challenge posed by the growth of the animal rights movement, the
conservation community could seriously impair its ability to influence
for the better the fate of the natural world in the decades to come.
5. WWF-SA is continually on guard to ensure that our own conservation
policies continue to be driven by genuine conservation imperatives and
not by animal rights agendas.
Translation into ordinary English.
1. As human populations become urbanized, people become
more sophisticated and therefore more concerned with the
ethical treatment of animals.
2. WWF-SA believes that this process is subversive, and if
unchecked, might even result in hunters having to sell their guns.
3. An ethical attitude to the treatment of sentient beings will result
in chaos:
A. Invasive aliens will run wild, destroying nature. The Tahrs
will graze crop circles in the fynbos, and then declare Table
Mountain a Tahr Republic. The WWF alien Panda logo will
have to go to an animal experimentation laboratory to be
sustainably utilized. It will be replaced by a Cape Molerat
with Certificates from the Alien Classification Board that its
ancestors are all pure South African going back as far as
carbon dating allows.
B. Elephants and Buffalo will form up into ranks and trample
game parks into deserts.
C. Hunting will become unpopular, so natives will plough up
the land. Wildlife will be killed by poor blacks (poaching, bad)
instead of by rich whites (conservation, good).
4. Unless the High Priests of Conservation form a tight scrum to
exclude the urbanized, ethically - literate invaders, we will lose
the power to decide what animals to kill and when.
5. The Tuli elephant traffickers may rest assured that we will
be ready to issue another Press Release rubbishing the animal
rightists who, for their own wicked agendas, spread malicious
rumours that the Tuli elephant babies were being beaten and
tortured. WWF-SA, upon whom the Almighty has bestowed
a monopoly of all knowledge relating to environmental
governance, will never allow ordinary, concerned citizens to
participate in wildlife management, regardless of the laws and
the Constitution.
Comment.
If you think that the Little article is the product of a Little brain,
and bordering on hate-speech, you are in great danger of being
burnt at the stake as a heretic.
However, if you are a pious believer in the WWF creed, then
you should not miss the next Conference for Intellectual Luddites.
There will be videos on the Culling of Overabundant Large
Native Herbivores (Ecobabble for elephants) and a special
lecture by the Endangered Wildlife Trust entitled 'Why pull a
trigger when you can kill millions with 1080?'
After all, whether one is spreading poison in the veld, or in
the media, no one should complain so long as it is being
spread by hands which are so frightfully Responsible.
The Kalahari Raptor Centre.
Tel: SA: 053 712 3576.
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